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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S .

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COMMUNICATIONS FROM PRESIDENT JAMES. 1. A recommendation that Dr. Arthur Stanley Pease be appointed assistant professor in the classics at the salary of $2,000 a year, services to begin Feb. 1, 1909. On motion of Mr. Crebs, and by the following vote, t h e recommendation was adopted and the appointment m a d e : Yeas, Messrs. Abbott, Blair, Crebs a n d Mr. • Lehman, and Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Busey and Mrs. E v a n s ; nays, n o n e ; absent, Governor Deneen and Messrs. Davison, Grout, Hatch and Meeker.

RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR S. A. FORBES.

2. I present the following letter of resignation from Professor Forbes. President Edmund Janes James, University of Illinois:

DEAR DOCTOR JAMES—In view of the fact that the way seems now to be

open to considerable enlargement of the work of the Natural History Survey, in progress under my direction, and the further fact that the work of the State Entomologist's office, for which I have been for many years responsible, has been lately much increased in scope and importance, it seems clear to me that I should ask to be relieved from further duty as head of the Department of Zoology, in which capacity I have served the University for nearly twenty-five years. The trustees have previously been so considerate as to lessen my University duties from time to time, at my request, by accepting my resignation as dean of the College of Science in 1905, and later by reducing to a minimum my duties as Professor of Zoology; but I am now convinced that both the interests of my scientific work and those of the department can best be served by my withdrawal from my University professorship. I have the honor,consequently, to tender to you my resignation as professor of Zoology, to take effect the first of September, 1009. In thus severing my present connection with the work of zoological instruction I beg to express to you and to the University trustees my grateful appreciation of the cordial support and kind assistance which both you and they have never failed to give me in all the divisions of my work, and my hope that by this action I may help to make possible a pronounced development of this important university department under the leadership of a professor able to give to it all his time, and /to take his full share in its work of instruction. • With kindest regards, I am Sincerely yours,

S. A. FORBES.

The resignation was accepted on motion of Mr. Blair, who offered, with regard to the resignation, t h e following minute, which was also adopted: In accepting the resignation of Dr. S. A. Forbes as professor of Zoology in the University of Illinois, the Board of Trustees desire to record their high appreciation of the great services he has rendered to the cause of science and the material welfare of the State during his more than a quarter of a century of connection with this University. His devotion to truth, his patience in research and his success in applying the results of his investigations to the economic needs and conditions of the State have done much towards giving this University a name and standing amongst the Universities of the world. We desire further to express our keen satisfaction in the fact that his life and work are to continue in close association with the life and growth of the University, and to congratulate the State of Illinois upon being able to have and to hold such a man in its service.